When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.

We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions are systemically racist. Many of our institutions that deal with law enforcement or controlling the bodies of Black people are systemically racist. Many of our educational institutions are systemically racist. Many of our corporate institutions are systemically racist. We don't have those conversations, so things don't change.

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.